Loughmarsh
Townland in the civil parish of Aghadown, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Loch na Curchaise
- Area
- 45.4 ha
- 112 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 4,188 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughmarsh, from 1,471 m² to 283,533 m² (28.35 ha, 70.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Loughmarsh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 Dec 2007Conditional
Construct conservatory extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/3037
23 Apr 2007Conditional
Single storey extension to dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1069
23 Mar 2007Conditional
Alterations to plan of cattle house granted under planning reg: 06/1467 to incorporate alterations to roof of existing farm buildings and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/816
6 Nov 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and install proprietary plant and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2315
27 Jul 2006Conditional
Construct cattle house, overground slurry storage tank, 2no. walled silos, concrete aprons and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1467
31 Jan 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/454
5 Oct 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/7519
12 Sept 2003Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4612
16 May 2003Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2328
2 Aug 2002Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/3479
12 Jul 2002Refused
Construction of dwellinghouse and temporary retention of mobile home
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/3041
9 Apr 1999Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/1787
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Loughmarsh.
Recorded monuments
- CO141-098 Souterrain
Description
Discovered 1981. Six earth-cut chambers arranged at right angles to each other and joined by creepways. Chamber 1: L 4.3m; Wth 1.4m. Chamber 2: L 3.3m; Wth 1.3m; H 1.1m. Chamber 3: L 2.9m; Wth 1.5m; H 1m. Chamber 4: L 3m; Wth 1.2m; H 1.1m. Chamber 5: L 4.1m; Wth 1.1m; H 0.8m. Chamber 6: L 2m; Wth 0.8m; H 0.8m. Annexe (L 0.8m; Wth 1m) at NNE end chamber 1. Construction shafts in annexe and chambers 2, 3, 5 and 6. Possible air vent chamber 4. Original entrance chamber 5 and possible second entrance chamber 6. (Cleary 1981, 38-40). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Loughmarsh.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Loughmarsh.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Loughmarsh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Loughmarsh · Loch na Curchaise
- Area
- 453,730 m² (45.37 ha, 112.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghadown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Aghadown South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Aghadown South electoral division: 623 people in 252 households; 85% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghadown, Bigmarsh, Dromnacaheragh, Glebemarsh, Goleenmarsh, Kilsarlaght
- Placenames
- Loughmarsh on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.